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Fixes an agent hanging on a warehouse query that never returns by enforcing statement timeouts, query cancellation, and a watchdog on every warehouse call. Use when runs hang indefinitely instead of failing. Not for queries that are slow but progressing within a known budget.
Fixes an agent driven Airflow backfill that times out before creating runs, covering long DagBag parsing inside the CLI command, date range size, and using the API or a staged approach instead of one giant CLI call. Use when an automated backfill command dies early. Not for a backfill that creates runs and then fails …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for airflow dag run to finish, dag run stuck in running - airflow backfill created duplicate dag runs, how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's airflow backfill command timed out before any dag runs were created
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes dbt Cloud jobs stuck in Queued state for hours without starting. Use when a job never transitions to Running and no steps execute. Not for jobs that run but hang on a warehouse query.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for dbt cloud job run, job run stuck in queued - smartling api job creation stuck in pending state - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dbt cloud job stuck in queued state for hours
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Clarifies the Celery beat confusion in Airflow and fixes the real cause when scheduled DAG runs stop: the Airflow scheduler, its scheduler loop, or a single beat instance for embedded Celery scheduling. Use when cron style schedules stop creating runs. Not for a DAG whose schedule is None or that is paused.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - airflow celery worker OOMKilled, task crashed - agent's scheduled notebook run timed out at the 2-hour airflow timeout - [Air…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow celery beat crashed, scheduled dags not running
Problem outcome: unknown
Explains how to recover when marking a task successful in the Airflow UI cleared or orphaned downstream task states, and how to rebuild the run state safely. Use when a mark success or clear was applied to a live run by mistake. Not for a DAG run that failed on its own with no manual state change.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Airflow 3.3.1 marking DAG run success returns 409 Conflict even though it applied - airflow dag run stuck in running state - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow mark success wiped downstream task states, how to recover
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes deferrable sensors and operators that stay in deferred state because the triggerer is down, the trigger class cannot be imported by the triggerer, or trigger capacity is exhausted. Use when a task shows deferred indefinitely. Not for classic poke or reschedule sensors that never enter deferred state.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - airflow zombie tasks stuck in queued, scheduler not picking them up - airflow deferrable operators triggerer config - [agent …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow deferrable sensor stuck in deferred state, triggerer not picki
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Diagnoses a task killed by SIGKILL under the LocalExecutor, which almost always means the host OOM killer, and shows how to prove it and size the task or the box. Use when a task dies with no Python traceback. Not for application errors that raise an exception you can read.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - airflow celery worker OOMKilled, task crashed - wrangler dev local mode: workerd failed to start, no error output - [agent ti…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow task killed by SIGKILL on local executor, worker ran out of memory
Problem outcome: unknown
Diagnoses zombie and orphaned tasks that sit in queued while the scheduler stops adopting them, covering executor slots, heartbeat loss, and stale task instance rows. Use when task instances stay queued with healthy workers. Not for a DAG that is paused or a pool that is simply full by design.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Airflow backfill tasks stuck in No status: scheduler starves backfill runs - executor reports task instance finished" zombie tasks
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow zombie tasks stuck in queued, scheduler not picking them up
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for airflow dag run to finish, dag run stuck in running - airflow backfill created duplicate dag runs, how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's airflow backfill command timed out before any dag runs were created
Problem outcome: unknown